With the news coming from neighboring Bangaladesh that a Sepoy mutiny is underway between para military forces and the army over the poor conditions and inequality in recognizing the services rendered by the Bangaladesh Rifles . My thinking goes back to 19th century about first INDIA'S WAR ON INDEPENDENCE. As historians would say the date 1857. However, the first Sepoy mutiny took place in 1806 in vellore. Many would disagree because we have been told by school and college curriculum that mutiny took place in 1857.
THE FACTS: After the death of Tipu Sultan in 1799,his family members were jailed in vellore prison.The East India Company passed a dress code on serving Indian Sepoy s which hurt ed their religious sentiments (like removal of earrings, forbidding to apply tilaks, removal of beards). In 1806, under the guise of one of the tipu's daughters marriage the soldiers entered the garrison and massacred the British officers .
CAUSE OF FAILURE: The victorious soldiers failed to bolt the fort gates properly.The action of the soldiers infuriated the British command which sent a huge battalion to crush the rebellion in that battle the British killed the entire rebels.Soon after the crushing the tipu's family was transferred to Calcutta.Interestingly, no family member of the Tipu sultan were anyway involved in the uprising.
COMMEMORATION: In 2006, The Indian postal service brought out a stamp in memory of the first Sepoy mutiny against British rule.
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It seems our history has to be re written the contributions from the south of the vindhayaas have been neglected while collating information on freedom's struggle.
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